Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well above the Arctic Circle, Wrangel Island lies north of the northeastern tip of Siberia. In 1924 the Soviet Government clinched its title to the land by establishing a permanent white settlement there. Later the settlement of Wrangel Island became an important project in the grandiose Russian scheme to grow cabbages and potatoes in the brief Arctic summer, turn the frozen tundras into a truck farm. Loudest advocate of this scheme is Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, heroic explorer who has been put in charge of the whole Red scheme for developing the Arctic...
...from a radio message relayed during the winter of 1935. Governor Semenchuk asked for another doctor to cope with an outbreak of typhus and scurvy. Professor Schmidt was puzzled. Balanced rations for two years should have prevented any outbreak of scurvy. He had never heard of typhus in the Arctic. Then Wrangel's radio operator passed on another message: Mrs. Wulfson, wife of the Island's doctor, was being returned as a "counterrevolutionary, a dangerous woman." Mrs. Wulfson had a fine record in the Communist party. Instead of sending another doctor, Professor Schmidt sent...
...greatest soldier of the A.E.F.," who killed 16 men, battered two to death with a pick and captured three machine-gun nests, all in one afternoon; Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac to block Santiago harbor in 1898; Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, whose ill-fated Arctic expedition in 1881 waged against no enemy but Nature, ended in the death of all but six of his 24 men (TIME. April...
...diabetes or cancer, rarely from hardening of the arteries. Yet they subsist almost entirely on meat. The possible relationship between such absence of disease and the peculiar diet of Eskimos led Professor Israel Mordecai Rabinowitch of McGill University Faculty of Medicine to join the Canadian Government's Eastern Arctic Patrol on a nine-week cruise last summer among the Hudson's Bay Co. fur trading posts which fringe Hudson Bay and the great islands to the north. Having systematized his clinical, bacteriological, chemical and sociological findings among the Eskimos, Dr. Rabinowitch published them last week in the Canadian...
That diet supplies all the proteins, fats and carbohydrates which the Eskimos need to thrive on. Whenever they adopt white men's flour, they develop alkalosis. Seal meat is the Arctic purgative...